It is always well worth re-reading this classic text - The Bolsheviks and Workers Control is a remarkable pamphlet by Maurice Brinton exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist history of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917 - 21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organisation and some 26 years after the original was written this is perhaps its greatest contribution today. For this reason alone this text deserves the greatest possible circulation today and we encourage you to link to it, download the text or otherwise circulate it. The text of this pamphlet was scanned and HTMLd by a number of anarchists to mark the 79th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1996. Its original author was not an anarchist, but belonged to the sister groups Solidarity and Socialism or Barbarism (France) which were libertarian marxist. The text was scanned from the 1975 Black & Red (Detroit) addition. As far as were aware Solidarity no longer exist, the address given in the original text for contacting them was Solidarity (North London) 123 Lathom Road, London, E.6 The Russian Revolution in is entirety from 1905 to 1917 continues to be one of the great periods of history for the struggle for freedom by the working class against the capitalist class. Now that Leninism is finally dying it is up to anarchists and other libertarian communists to rescue the positive and negative lessons of that great revolution from the distortions of the left and the right. The book is a vital contribution to writing the real history of the revolution.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:36:31 +0000
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